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Also Called

Black/Dark Animancy

Necrokinesis

Necro Magic

Undeath Magic

Capabilities

The user's magical abilities revolve around manipulating the dead, death, the life-force and/or souls for good (i.e., resurrecting the dead), evil (in various ways) or neither. Users can also use communicate with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge.

Many practitioners find a way to cheat death one way or another, whether by becoming some form of undead creature or by bypassing their own ability to die.

As the Chief Mystic of the Fiendish Five, Mz. Ruby's powers allow her to break both the laws of man and nature at the same time.

Keith (Fairy Tail) is revealed to be a Necromancer.

Necromancers (Wizard 101) are wizards and witches from the School of Death, their specialties versed around death magic.

Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (Evil Dead), the Book of the Dead.

Xul The Necromancer (Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction)

Necromancer (Valkyrie Crusade)

Sania (Valkyrie Crusade) the goddess of the dead.

Merascylla (Nanatsu no Taizai) can raise the dead with their rage and spite powering them.

Malcolm Fade (Shadowhunter Chronicles) attempted to use necromancy to resurrect his lost lover.

Tom (Star vs. the Forces of Evil) was able to bring long-dead martial arts expert Mackie Hand back from the dead on a whim.

Raiden (Mortal Kombat) using the necromancy techniques of the Houan cult to reanimate Liu Kang.

Baphomet (The Wicked + The Divine) is able to summon the spirits of the dead.

Through a pact she made with Set, Ahmanet (Dark Universe) gained tremendous power over necromancy, able to reanimate herself as an undead, mummify people and even reanimate dead corpses that abide by her will.

So'unga (Inuyasha) is a demon sword with tremendous necromantic powers, allowing the reanimation of hundreds of dead souls and open a massive portal to the netherworld that can absorb the entire world.

Raven Hex (Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose) is a witch that follows a dark-path, and in doing so she was know for using forbidden and dark magic including necromancy to use as she see fit.